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beardedmrbean

theman

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

tattooedzombigirl

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

secondlina

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

sinksanksockie2

w-what if potato is actually lucky

belovedsamber

Alright, I’m convinced bring me good news potato.

tardisesandtitans

Come on potato please

charmainemaclendon

Looking forward to some good news, potato!

iguanamouth

unicornempire

I. Love this.

Love it.

Oh my god

yes.

defilerwyrm

This is it, I found it, the funniest post on this entire godsforsaken website

chambergambit

I will never get over how brilliant this comic is. The artist could have just drawn a single image in response, but instead we have this masterpiece. The world doesn’t deserve @iguanamouth.

mrsmancuspia

@alligatorjesie you gotta see this!!

#fun #cute #funny

twerklina

I’ve been waiting since March to post this...

socrappily-deactivated20140302

“what are you reading?”

“its a…online book.”

angogabloggian

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“….uh….”

starksnstripes

christophrnolan

I love that everyone just knows

ishipanarmada

Or…alternately:

“what are you writing?”

“it’s a….story.”

“oh cool, what’s it about?”

“…uh…”

chrispineofficial

“can i read it?”

dil-howlters-gay-dads

“Oooh what are you drawing? Can I see?”

mad-max-war-girl

I FEEL THIS on a personal level

sticktomyheart-deactivated20210

no but also “what website is that?”

“you have a tumblr? can i follow you?”

“what kind of blog is ur tumblr?”

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

supremeuppityone

“So what are you working on right now?”

commanderbanana

I have this problem where I would much rather read the story I’m trying to write than actually write it.

downloading-new-emotion

i’ve been looking for this post my entire life

dramasbomin

you put it in words

wufflesvetinari

#i want it to spring into existence already written for me #but i don’t want someone else to write it because they’ll do it wrong

#writing

kiramartinauthor

When you're writing and you suddenly realize you don't know what happens next

taraljc

When you’re writing and you suddenly realise you DO know what happens next

justahappycloud

When you’re writing and you realise you have to write what happens next

emiliaf25-deactivated20240126

My god that last one though

#writing

embrace-crab

Dragons, with jobs

Artist credit to Flamecraft!

#so stinking cute

hellyeahrihannafenty

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

dduane

Always gonna reblog. :)

dduane

And yet again… :)

myjetpack

My cartoon for yesterday's @guardian. p.s. my new book of literary cartoons is out soon: https://tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

lagueuledesaturne

cam1lla

“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

moonshinemagpie

"you are functionally a conservative" is such a good and clarifying insult

Literally right after I saw this post, I saw another post in a discord chat for BOOK EDITORS in which an outspokenly liberal editor talked about how Nabokov should have never been published because he wrote about p*dophiles and described women's bodies in ways that made her uncomfortable. She described his writing as "objectively terrible" and said she wanted to burn his books. And other editors were bringing up classics they didn't like and talking about how they wanted to throw them in the trash. This wasn't like a light "unpopular opinion!" conversation. This was actual book editors talking about how books should be destroyed and censored.

There is something so scary and toxic in global culture right now. The revival of fascism is influencing everyone's mindset and approach to art, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.

I see far more books being censored today than when I was a kid. Librarians handed me The Catcher in the Rye, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Animal Farm when I was literally 8-11. My mom would never have taken a book away from me. I read everything from the Tao Te Ching to the Qur'an to atheist texts under my desk at school. Teachers thought nothing of it or encouraged it. Books seemed universally acknowledged as sacrosanct to me.

Now I can't find any adults who don't hesitate or want to make exceptions when it comes to censorship. Even the most liberal social activist librarians I know go, "well except for book X..."

Functionally conservative. It's so important to have the language to express that.

cam1lla

Thank you for this addition!

theothin

I've seen this sort of thing described as a "total war" ideology, and I think it's a pretty apt description

the idea that we're all supposed to be soldiers, shaping every part of our lives around doing what it takes to most effectively Fight The Enemy. that everything you do must be held up to scrutiny, and if anything falls short of what our side might ask for, you're Part Of The Problem

it really is how fascists demand total compliance, just shaped to hijack progressive-sounding ideas. and it's bullshit

bananonbinary

i think this conversation gets tricky because everyone has their limit, where they say "no, anything past this line is bad and makes me feel bad." so in response to that:

Even if some pieces of media are obviously hateful and i think most reasonable people would/should hate them, it's so so important to be able to confront the ugly parts of humanity. it is impossible to address a problem if you refuse to look at it head on.

like, i was talking yesterday about Song of The South, which i think is a solid contender for containing "objectively bad content," if such a thing exists. do i think it's a particularly artistically valuable movie? not really. do i think it's appropriate for anyone who just wants to enjoy an animated film without getting slapped in the face with romanticized racism and dehumanization? also no. it makes me angry that parts of it have continued to exist for so long with their context stripped.

but it's important. it happened. it harmed people, and that matters. media is a mirror of the world, and when the world is ugly, the media is ugly too. we can't hide that. we can't just talk around it and gesture vaguely at "you know...that" and call it good enough. watch it. remember it. preserve it, so future generations can see our own ugliness and perhaps avoid it. Don't ever try to bury it.